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Crab Umbra
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
{{2,U}}: Untap enchanted creature.
Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Dammjan on
2 years ago
Yeah Crab Umbra is just in there for the Totem armor and it is realy cheap. Might remove that instead of Sun Titan.
DreadKhan on
2 years ago
You could pull the Titan, but you also might remove one of the Umbra auras. Crab Umbra seems a bit odd, but I might be missing something? Either would seem reasonable to replac
king-saproling on Knock-Off Pirates
3 years ago
These too: Blades of Velis Vel , Wings of Velis Vel , Volatile Claws , Sakashima of a Thousand Faces , Sakashima the Impostor , Crab Umbra , Pemmin's Aura
king-saproling on Pirate Pingers
3 years ago
You might like these: Reckless Fireweaver , Amoeboid Changeling , Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar , Sigil of Sleep , Ophidian Eye , Quicksilver Dagger , Mistform Mask , Embraal Gear-Smasher , Lightning-Rig Crew , Crab Umbra , Chakram Retriever , Spark Double , Goldspan Dragon , Isochron Scepter , Merchant Scroll , Spellseeker
kpres on Merieke Ri Berit*
3 years ago
My very first EDH deck was based on Merieke. I didn't know the format very well, so I didn't build it very well. However I did use a few good auras that don't appear in your deck:
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Freed from the Real - : Untap
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Aura of Dominion - The creature you steal can be used to pay the cost of untapping with this one, if you steal an untapped creature.
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Crab Umbra - Doubles as protection for Merieke, but untapping is expensive
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Immobilizing Ink - Kinda bad, but better than nothing. Half the time you might put this on an opponent's creature.
Tzefick on Ellen, the Generous
3 years ago
It's definitely an interesting cards, but I must say that the most recent iteration's second ability still seems too powerful for just 2 mana, even if it grants the opponent a card draw.
It's a legendary creature at 3 CMC that is Esper colors. Most people dislike the additional costs that Grand Arbiter Augustin IV entails. Granted that is to all players and is passive and not active. However it being an active may actually be an upside because then it can be manipulated to basically lock out a player. What's the risk in giving them card draw, if they cannot cast anything?
Althought most single-target kill spells are instant speed, so you're still just making that player increase their chances to find one to kill the Advisor... There's a bit give-and-take / risk-vs-reward.
However consider cards like Aura of Dominion, ( Crab Umbra ), Freed from the Real, Pemmin's Aura, and Vigean Graftmage can relatively easily untap it.
For 5 mana and giving that opponent 2 card draws and gaining yourself a bunch of life, you make everything they cast cost more... That's pretty brutal in terms of taxing. And it can be your Commander. Factor in that the opponent wont play many cards - at least at sorcery speed - and you will be gaining increasingly more life for each activation, in Esper colors that could easily turn that life gain into kill pressure through Sanguine Bond, Vizkopa Guildmage, or Aetherflux Reservoir.
Thinking about it, it's not actually all that powerful (compared to many other things in Magic), but it REALLY would suck to be on the receiving end, especially in a color that either has very few instant speed cards or nothing effective to use it on. Being locked out of the game is an even worse gameplay experience than being killed - at least IMO.
May I suggest an alternative that is more flexible?
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shaftdiggity on Alela, Enchantress of the Fae
3 years ago
Idol of Oblivion would be an all-star I would think.
If you find people target Alela, maybe Kaya's Ghostform, Crab Umbra, Hyena Umbra, or Gift of Immortality
MajordomoTom on Tuvasa Pillow Fort
3 years ago
recommend you add some umbras to get totem armor:
and others
Love that Tuvasa, I have him driving a deck with enchantments and merfolk.
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